Liz Welton (she/her)
Director of Counseling & Student Life

lizw@maybeckhs.org

BA Community Justice Studies and Anthropology
Guilford College

MA Social Work
Smith College School for Social Work

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Liz wears many hats at Maybeck with the aim of supporting the social and emotional experience of students: she provides individual counseling, teaches Freshman Seminar, Health, and Psychology, and oversees Contact Groups, clubs, and the Peer Mentor Program. She brings a commitment to creating student responsive programming that centers’ students needs and voice, making Maybeck the tightly knit community that it is. 

Prior to Maybeck, Liz worked as a Clinical Social Worker with adolescents and young adults in various therapeutic and educational settings.  She served as a Staff Therapist at Coyote Coast Youth & Family Counseling, Inc. in Orinda for three years, and was contracted as School Counselor at Orinda Academy during that time. She also served as a therapist at the counseling centers at Duke University and Humboldt State University, and worked for a wilderness therapy program and a family help center supporting at-risk teens and families.

Liz loves wearing the hat of therapist, group facilitator, mediator, community builder, educator, wilderness guide, mentor, and family support specialist, among others. She is particularly interested in leadership development, wilderness-based rites of passage work, and parenting support related to adolescent development. A native North Carolinian, Liz hails from Southern roots though always felt an uncontainable draw to the west. In her spare time, Liz aspires to go camping, swim in rivers, do ceramics, play volleyball and soccer, and enjoy the food and live music of the east bay. In reality, Liz spends most of her time wrangling her two young children and exploring the playgrounds of Berkeley.